The bill amends Chapter 18-1 of the General Laws by adding a new section titled "Confidential communications." This section establishes that communications between an attorney and a client acting as a trustee or other fiduciary are privileged and protected from disclosure to the same extent as if the client were acting in their individual capacity. It specifies that this privilege is not waived by the fiduciary relationship between the trustee and the beneficiaries of the trust or by the use of trust property to compensate the attorney for legal services rendered to the trustee or other fiduciary.

Additionally, it clarifies that if an attorney's client is a trustee or other fiduciary, the attorney's client is solely the person acting in that capacity, and a successor trustee or fiduciary does not automatically become the attorney's client solely by virtue of succeeding the person with whom the attorney had an attorney-client relationship.

The bill also allows trustees or fiduciaries and their successors to agree to share privileged communications related to the trust without waiving the privilege, provided that such disclosures are not made to third parties without the disclosing party's consent or a court order. Furthermore, the bill states that it does not impair or abridge the law governing exceptions to the attorney-client privilege relative to claimants through the same deceased individual. This act will take effect upon passage.